The research environment in History has benefited from significant investment over the past decade or so. Nine new appointments have been made in subjects ranging from medieval Scottish History to modern European, Asian and African history, the history of medicine/health and oral history.
Major research grants have been awarded to members of staff by the ESRC, the AHRC, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust and the Wellcome Trust. Historians at Strathclyde have published with prestigious academic presses such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Yale University Press and been shortlisted for prizes such as the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Whitfield Prize.
Regular meetings organised within History include seminar series in modern European history, health history, Scottish history and oral history and the annual meeting of the Conference on Modern British History for Scotland, Northern Ireland and North Britain. The annual convention of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the UK Oral History society have recently been organised through History at University of Strathclyde, and a postgraduate summer school in Prague, funded by the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES), is scheduled for 2011.
History offers supervision to postgraduates undertaking MRes, MPhil and PhD degrees in research areas relating to History staff areas of specialism. It also offers several taught postgraduate courses: the MSc/Diploma in Historical Studies; The MSc/Diploma in the North Atlantic World, c900-1800; the MSc/Diploma in Social History; the MSc/Diploma/Certificate in Health History and the MA in Comparative History (taught at Central Michigan University for UK-originating students). We also support postgraduate research in Czechoslovak and Central European history through our partnership in the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES), which links Strathclyde with seven British universities and an additional seven partners across Central and Eastern Europe, including in Prague, Krakow and Budapest.
For further details follow the web links included on this site and/or contact the Director of Post-Graduate Affairs, Dr Alison Cathcart, a.cathcart@strath.ac.uk, History, McCance building, Glasgow G1 1XQ.
MA at CMU 2011
PG Training and Research in Oral History
Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (www.gla.ac.uk/crcees)